French painter Gustave Caillebotte's interest in male subjects sharply distinguishes him from his Impressionist peers. Overwhelmingly, he observed and depicted the men in his life—including his ...

Petra, Angkor, Copan, Venice, Lascaux, Easter Island—all are examples of irreplaceable cultural heritage built in stone and now slowly disappearing. In 1996 the Getty Conservation Institute published ...

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The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes is intended for practicing photograph conservators, curators, art historians, archivists, library professionals, and anyone responsible for ...

Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the ancient Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum was rediscovered in the 1750s and has yielded rare works of art and papyrus scrolls. This exhibition ...

Lyonel Feininger took up the camera at the age of 58 in fall 1928. Despite his early skepticism about this "mechanical" medium, the painter was inspired by the enthusiasm of his sons Andreas and ...

In the seventeenth century, the Persian city of Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy. Manuscript paintings produced within the city’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic ...

As a response to this problem, the Getty Conservation Institute, in collaboration with a number of artists' estates, foundations and studios, is implementing a system of paint coupons for outdoor ...

William W. Nazaroff is associate professor of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. He is interested in the experimental and theoretical aspects of indoor air quality, including the ...

Foundation Deposit of Xerxes (The Daiva Inscription), Achaemenid, 486–465 BC.Limestone. Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, A24120. The Persian king Cyrus II, “the Great” ...

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Michelangelo Buonarroti is recognized as one of the most creative and influential artists in the history of Western art. His most celebrated creations have become icons of world culture: the ...